ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors by tialaramex on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:09PM (#42598343)

Cool. A quarter of a century ago a friend of mine worked on this and you can still see his name in some copyright notices (Alistair Riddoch)

Most recently Al was learning Rust because he needs that for his current role, it might be fun to see whether you can write an ELKS target for Rust.

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Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors by ghaerr on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:39AM (#42602472)

Is Alistair Riddoch still around? I've been wondering about him, his name is all over the early dev86 and ELKS C library code :)

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Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors by tialaramex on Sunday January 05, 2025 @12:20PM (#42603254)

Well I mean, he's a friend and in fact hosted the NYE party I was at so, in that sense he's still around. I might see him later this week and if so I'll try to remember to mention that ELKS is still going.

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Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors by alriddoch on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:22PM (#42628385)

Hi! I'm not really doing much in the Free Software space any more, mostly due to inflexible employment situations, but I'm delighted to see ELKS still ticking along.

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